The Heart of the Parma

The 15th century from the Birth of Christ, almost seven thousand years from the Creation of the world... The principality of Moscow, strengthening, looks at the riches of its neighbors, both near and far. Rus' slowly advances to the Urals. And in the Urals — there are no wild tribes, in the Urals — there are forest pagan principalities, an ancient taiga world, wonderful and terrifying for outsiders.

Here they do not believe in the salvation of the righteous soul, here they pray to the stern gods of fate. Will the Orthodox cross overcome the forest evil of the eternal Parma — the coniferous ocean? 

Will this gloomy universe be conquered by the stranger Jesus Christ? Will the local inhabitants become Russians? And will the Russians become local? The novel by Alexei Ivanov "The Heart of the Parma" is about how people and nations, finding their homeland, find their destiny.